French cinema's new 'sexual revolution': Postmodern porn and troubled genre

French Cultural Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 265-280

  Downing, Lisa ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breillat, Catherine; Despentes, Virginie; Film; Gender studies; No , Gaspar; Pornography; Postmodernism; Trinh Thi, Coralie

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548400621     PISSN: 09571558     EISSN: 17402352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009715580401500305     Document Type: Article

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